As a kid, creation was something that I always loved. Creating worlds for video games, creating businesses that didn’t make any money, selling lemonade, etcetera. In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.
If every shoe store in America stops selling shoes, no one’s going to go barefoot for 15, 20 years. No one needs shoes, for the most part. We have shoes; our problem is what to do with them.
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they’ll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it’s one of my biggest personal achievements – on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.
When I started playing music, people weren’t selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
If you’re a small startup considering selling your company, there’s definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
I don’t see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.
And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It’s the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it’s destabilizing because everyone is selling.
My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts – I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says ‘Rolling Stones,’ ‘Lollapalooza,’ or whatever. On the outside they’re 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
Street art belongs on the street. But I’m a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.
The psychology of fashion is interesting because we’re selling people something they don’t really need. We’re just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
In this day and age, I really just don’t want to sell people on something. I don’t want to have to sell you sound. I don’t like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.
Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you’ve made it money-wise, you’ve made a life. Which is a lie. You don’t get happiness by money.
I’m the cash cow, I believe, so at 135 or 130, I’m selling out arenas, putting butts in the seats.
As a brand marketer, I’m a big believer in ‘branding the customer experience,’ not just selling the service.
When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.
All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don’t think history is worth selling my soul.
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
If your selling access to somebody who is a future president or current secretary of state, or if there’s an implication that you are, that matters.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
If you’re looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn’t seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn’t at all great for business.
I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.
I’m looking forward to seeing more ICO projects provide increased clarity about the performance metrics expectations they plan to exhibit during their future adult lives in addition to the assumptive utility of that token they are selling.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Once you get one actor to say yes, that leads to a second, and the third yes leads to a fourth – there’s a kind of comfort zone that occurs where each actor realizes, ‘You’re not selling this movie on me, so if it totally doesn’t work, then its not all on my head.’
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
There’s such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that’s not what you go into the job for, and yet you’re persuaded that’s what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.
What populates a comic-book convention? Well there’s actors, and there’s dealers, and there’s comic-book artists and writers, and there’s cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are selling trading cards, and people selling swords. It’s not a flea market.
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don’t take kindly to thieves in Africa.
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world – not just personal computers – and Apple was the number one selling computer.
No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
You’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.
It’s an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn’t valid. They’re selling films like a product.
When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.
KIND has gone through many iterations as it deepens its social impact. When you’re selling a million dollars a year, the impact you can have is very different than when you are selling over a billion dollars a year. Scale has allowed us to do things we never thought possible.
My father did lots of things. He had an orange-juice factory. He did real estate. He did commercial selling. He was always up and about doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things and being adventurous. I always admired his self-discipline. He was very good at getting everything done. He was very tidy.
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
I’m a bit of a nerd, I wouldn’t mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
Working Holiday’ goes out to those earning their pay and a half: from retail employees at the mall and the kids selling popcorn at the movies, to the waiters at Chinese restaurants!
For years, TransCanada has been selling the Keystone XL pipeline to Americans with all of the enthusiasm of a used car salesman – and using all of the same tricks. However, one myth is more egregious than all the rest: this pipeline will enhance America’s energy independence.
